Villa 1 Man. United 2 Post match thread.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

The winning goal should never have happened. I think they walked the ball into our half unchallenged. Even then we stood off while the guy picked out a pass. I hate to think Emery has told them to do this.

Exactly how I saw it....we generally gave them the space to carry the ball into our half at will....at one point Maguire walks the ball about 40 yards towards our defence totally unchallenged...yet when we pressed them they generally made a mess of things.

[Drummond]

There are certain players we press and others we let have the ball. It's the same for a lot of sides to be honest. The opposition let Lenglet carry the ball forward, to make sure they are covering everywhere and everyone else.

As for being clinical, they didn't have many chances but scored. We did, but didn't.

[astonvilla82]

The winning goal should never have happened. I think they walked the ball into our half unchallenged. Even then we stood off while the guy picked out a pass. I hate to think Emery has told them to do this.

Exactly how I saw it....we generally gave them the space to carry the ball into our half at will....at one point Maguire walks the ball about 40 yards towards our defence totally unchallenged...yet when we pressed them they generally made a mess of things.

Yes I wondered that myself at one point, McGuire did say if it is to be believed, that they had players that can come off the bench and win you games,

[Pete3206]

Unai is the best manager we've had since Sir Ron, but possibly the only slight criticism I would have of him, is he sometimes leaves his substitutions too late, yesterday the subbing of Bailey did baffle me, maybe cost us the game. Anyway, obviously ignoring the result, there were far more positives than negatives, on another day we would have won quite comfortable, possibly the most pleasing thing was the improvement of JJ, still some way off his best, but he's getting there.

He's behind Big Ron and Little for me, still. Obviously the rest of the season still to go so that may change.

Nurse!

Yep, it's obviously mental thinking that managers who finished higher up the table and won a trophy were better. Pass the meds!

How many trophies has Emery won in his career compared to Ron and Brian?

[ChicagoLion]

Unai is the best manager we've had since Sir Ron, but possibly the only slight criticism I would have of him, is he sometimes leaves his substitutions too late, yesterday the subbing of Bailey did baffle me, maybe cost us the game. Anyway, obviously ignoring the result, there were far more positives than negatives, on another day we would have won quite comfortable, possibly the most pleasing thing was the improvement of JJ, still some way off his best, but he's getting there.

He's behind Big Ron and Little for me, still. Obviously the rest of the season still to go so that may change.

Nurse!

Yep, it's obviously mental thinking that managers who finished higher up the table and won a trophy were better. Pass the meds!

How many trophies has Emery won in his career compared to Ron and Brian?

please stop

[VillaTim]

The winning goal should never have happened. I think they walked the ball into our half unchallenged. Even then we stood off while the guy picked out a pass. I hate to think Emery has told them to do this.

we went to sleep , ball watching , cross came in too easily and Cash was asleep

[steamer]

But in my view it should have been a centre half challenging him

[VillaTim]

But in my view it should have been a centre half challenging him

you're probably right, i'd need to see the McTominay run again but i can't force myself to watch the goal again

[paul_e]

Cash wasn't asleep, he was behind him, the problem was that his run hadn't been tracked from midfield or by Carlos who ended up being a coupole of yards too far over and left a gap for McTominay to run into.

[LeeB]

Cash wasn't asleep, he was behind him, the problem was that his run hadn't been tracked from midfield or by Carlos who ended up being a coupole of yards too far over and left a gap for McTominay to run into.

Pretty much as he did for Sanchez's goal for Chelsea

[AV82EC]

Cash had Garnacho behind him so I think was in two minds and Diego imv got caught ball watching.

[coreyfeldman]

The winning goal should never have happened. I think they walked the ball into our half unchallenged. Even then we stood off while the guy picked out a pass. I hate to think Emery has told them to do this.

You could hear emery on the telly going absolutely mental at the players in the 2 mins leading up to the goal, it was like he could sense it

[VillaTim]

Cash wasn't asleep, he was behind him, the problem was that his run hadn't been tracked from midfield or by Carlos who ended up being a coupole of yards too far over and left a gap for McTominay to run into.

Pretty much as he did for Sanchez's goal for Chelsea

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[Risso]

A player's who's good in the air arriving into the middle of the box should have been picked up by one of the central defenders, in this case Carlos, not the right back who was the wrong side of him, as you'd expect a right back to be.

[Nev]

The winning goal should never have happened. I think they walked the ball into our half unchallenged. Even then we stood off while the guy picked out a pass. I hate to think Emery has told them to do this.

You could hear emery on the telly going absolutely mental at the players in the 2 mins leading up to the goal, it was like he could sense it

He was, the fans were roaring us forward as usual but you could feel that he was anxious about our shape. I sit level with the touchline so had a perfect view of him doing his fruit.